The main reason for the delays, which see a third of the most urgent items taking more than the target five days to arrive, is because the goods are not ready for transport. The London-based NAO recommended the Ministry of Defense improve its planning and the management of its supply chain.
The NAO suggested that the department could save 15 million pounds ($24 million) a year by using surface transport rather than air, which accounted for 90 percent of transport costs.
“The department urgently needs better supply-chain information systems with the appropriate skills and processes to match,” Amyas Morse, the head of the NAO, said in an e-mailed statement today. “It currently keeps the armed forces supplied by either stockpiling more than necessary, sending too many routine items by air, or both. This ties up precious resources that could be better used to support troops.”
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